3 volumes, 8vo. Half-title in volume 3 (not called for in other volumes), folding engraved map, 14 lithographic plates (5 chromolithographic and 8 tinted), 3 engraved plans (2 folding); 24 pp. publisher’s advertisements in vol. I. (Slight marginal toning, a few occasional spots.) Publisher's blue cloth embossed and decorated in black, spines gilt-lettered, uncut, by Edmonds & Remnants with their ticket (spines darkened, some minor staining, a touch of wear to extremities); folding case. Provenance: Greyfriars Maryville (bookplates and stamp on vol. I frontispiece recto).

FIRST EDITION of one of "the greatest works of travel ever published" (Penzer). Burton was “the first English Christian to enter Mecca of his own free will as a true Mohammedan pilgrim, and not as a convert” (Penzer, p. 47). Abbey Travel 368; Penzer, pp. 49-50 (“very rare and increasing in value”); Spink 7.